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<p>[QUOTE="kazuma78, post: 3730122, member: 17304"][ATTACH=full]1000163[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000164[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>After this large sized currency came the next issue of national currency, this time small sized. Before these small sized pieces came about, I believe all of the notes were hand signed. With the new small sized pieces, I believe the signatures were all copies, which were printed directly on the notes at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Below are the serial #1's with his signature on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000171[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently he didn't save any rolls of the new issue pieces in silver. Or if he did, I have no record of it or pieces from it. To include any of the new issues in 1916, 1921, 1932, etc. The next evidence of coins that he saved from the bank that were new issue were 1938. He saved some rolls of 1938-D buffalo nickels. The coin below came from one of those rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000177[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000178[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>He must have bought some other pieces along the way and had an avid interest in numismatics through the years. I have some old catalogs from B. Max Mehl which he must have saved from the 1930's and 1940's. As an interesting follow up piece, I also have a newspaper article from 1964 about coin collectors in the Marion, Ohio area in which a bit is written about him and he is quoted on some of the information I posted above. He specifically mentions starting at the bank in 1909 and also in keeping some of the currency I have photos of, including the uncut sheet and also the serial #1 notes. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000182[/ATTACH] </p><p>I was never fortunate enough to get to meet him. From family accounts he not only loved to collect, but also loved to share numismatics with others and the history that went along with the coins and currency. In the 1950's and 1960's he also helped one of his daughters assemble a collection of coins of her own. After falling on some hard times during the great depression, I think he enjoyed living vicariously through the purchases he helped her make for her collection. He passed away in 1974 but I believe he continued to collect up until the final years of his life. I hope that as I develop my own collection and numismatic interests, he can look down and be proud that I inherited his numismatic genes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kazuma78, post: 3730122, member: 17304"][ATTACH=full]1000163[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000164[/ATTACH] After this large sized currency came the next issue of national currency, this time small sized. Before these small sized pieces came about, I believe all of the notes were hand signed. With the new small sized pieces, I believe the signatures were all copies, which were printed directly on the notes at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Below are the serial #1's with his signature on them. [ATTACH=full]1000171[/ATTACH] Apparently he didn't save any rolls of the new issue pieces in silver. Or if he did, I have no record of it or pieces from it. To include any of the new issues in 1916, 1921, 1932, etc. The next evidence of coins that he saved from the bank that were new issue were 1938. He saved some rolls of 1938-D buffalo nickels. The coin below came from one of those rolls. [ATTACH=full]1000177[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000178[/ATTACH] He must have bought some other pieces along the way and had an avid interest in numismatics through the years. I have some old catalogs from B. Max Mehl which he must have saved from the 1930's and 1940's. As an interesting follow up piece, I also have a newspaper article from 1964 about coin collectors in the Marion, Ohio area in which a bit is written about him and he is quoted on some of the information I posted above. He specifically mentions starting at the bank in 1909 and also in keeping some of the currency I have photos of, including the uncut sheet and also the serial #1 notes. [ATTACH=full]1000180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1000182[/ATTACH] I was never fortunate enough to get to meet him. From family accounts he not only loved to collect, but also loved to share numismatics with others and the history that went along with the coins and currency. In the 1950's and 1960's he also helped one of his daughters assemble a collection of coins of her own. After falling on some hard times during the great depression, I think he enjoyed living vicariously through the purchases he helped her make for her collection. He passed away in 1974 but I believe he continued to collect up until the final years of his life. I hope that as I develop my own collection and numismatic interests, he can look down and be proud that I inherited his numismatic genes.[/QUOTE]
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